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thinks pretty crazy because everyone is saying from president obama downwards that we should have this debate about what are the limits of surveillance and what kind of oversight should we have and it's really only david cameron and the u.k. government that's saying we shouldn't do that let's look at how much pressure the guardian has faced these last month the paper began publishing revelations of surveillance this summer soon after police came knocking on the door demanding it hand over all the information it had that didn't work so the paper was threatened with legal action reportedly by figures close to david cameron the paper refused to yield in august the partner of a guardian columnist was detained under anti terror laws allegedly for carrying more incriminating data well later that month for people was forced to destroy hard drives containing sensitive information or that to fail to stop more revolutions and here we are now waiting for the editor of the guardian to go before m.p.'s which he's doing right now. this is all t. international coming up this hour britain's sweet chat
thinks pretty crazy because everyone is saying from president obama downwards that we should have this debate about what are the limits of surveillance and what kind of oversight should we have and it's really only david cameron and the u.k. government that's saying we shouldn't do that let's look at how much pressure the guardian has faced these last month the paper began publishing revelations of surveillance this summer soon after police came knocking on the door demanding it hand over all...
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individual nation state particularly nation were they would become basically the reserve currency the world. there's. there's a motion that is more coherent i feel like. throughout the book of course you do criticize obama a lot but you largely point the blame at the republican opposition forces for his failure to implement real progressive policies during his administration how do you how do you i guess excuses squandering of the supermajority during the first two years in office he had a super majority for thirteen weeks that was how long it took until scott brown was sworn in to replace ted kennedy and then. he had a thirteen week period when he had a filibuster proof senate and that was it out of the entire five years that he's been president so the things that he campaigned on the things that were suggested the over two hundred pieces a really genuinely solid progressive legislation answer palosi actually got out of the house of representatives i mean simple stuff that you would think would be no brainers like like let's no longer give a tax break to companies that dismantle factories
individual nation state particularly nation were they would become basically the reserve currency the world. there's. there's a motion that is more coherent i feel like. throughout the book of course you do criticize obama a lot but you largely point the blame at the republican opposition forces for his failure to implement real progressive policies during his administration how do you how do you i guess excuses squandering of the supermajority during the first two years in office he had a...
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individual nation state particularly nation were they would become basically the reserve currency the world. there's. there's a motion that is more coherent i feel like. throughout the book of course you do criticize obama a lot but you largely point the blame at the republican opposition forces for his failure to implement real progressive policies during his administration how do you how do you i guess excuses squandering of the supermajority during the first two years in office he had a super majority for thirteen weeks that was how long it took until scott brown was sworn in to replace ted kennedy and then. he had a thirteen week period where he had a filibuster proof senate and that was it out of the entire five years he's been president so the things that he campaigned on the things that were suggested the over two hundred pieces a really genuinely solid progressive legislation answer palosi actually got out of the house of representatives i mean simple stuff that you would think would be no brainers like like let's no longer give a tax break to companies that dismantle factories in t
individual nation state particularly nation were they would become basically the reserve currency the world. there's. there's a motion that is more coherent i feel like. throughout the book of course you do criticize obama a lot but you largely point the blame at the republican opposition forces for his failure to implement real progressive policies during his administration how do you how do you i guess excuses squandering of the supermajority during the first two years in office he had a...
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to say well hang on the serious debate that needs to be held here president obama has said you're right there is a debate we need to hold but david cameron say well no forget about the debate we're just going to talk about security because that's the really serious thing so he has was really troubling is that he won't address the central issue ok thank you very much to do list for the media technology journalists and of course that debate does continue the editor of the guardian newspaper facing the questioning from the home affairs select committee right now. live from london sam many thanks indeed for that to you and your guests as well and lots of our local how much pressure the guardian has phrased these last months the paper began publishing revelations of surveillance this summer soon after police came knocking on the door demanding the paper hand over all the information it had and that didn't work so the paper was threatened with legal action reportedly by figures close to david cameron the paper refused to yield in august the partner of a guardian columnist for the taint and to
to say well hang on the serious debate that needs to be held here president obama has said you're right there is a debate we need to hold but david cameron say well no forget about the debate we're just going to talk about security because that's the really serious thing so he has was really troubling is that he won't address the central issue ok thank you very much to do list for the media technology journalists and of course that debate does continue the editor of the guardian newspaper...